You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...

[logank013]

Originally Posted by GreyingJay

When the passcode for your phone is your team number (come on, hands up all of you)

or if you are like me and you choose another team near yo to be your passcode....

[carpedav000]

Originally Posted by logank013

or if you are like me and you choose another team near yo to be your passcode....

Is it 1741? Because we are in neighboring school districts.

[Darkseer54]

Originally Posted by carpedav000

Is it 1741? Because we are in neighboring school districts.

I thought we aren't supposed to give out passwords and such .

[carpedav000]

Originally Posted by Darkseer54

I thought we aren't supposed to give out passwords and such .

I havent given it away. Its just an extremely educated guess.

[GeeTwo]

1. When you're at a regional, and the announcers comfortably use a term that you coined and were the first to post on CD.
   
2. When you make a prediction about a specific defense, and not only is it proven true on the field, but the only time the defense is ever used is against your own team, and the prediction is spot-on.

Our team strategy was to work the landfil, figuring the powerhouses would go for the HP stations. By mid-January, I was regularly referring to this as "mining" the landfill at our build sessions, and finally posted the term in February. I heard it used by the announcers at Bayou (week 4) as casually as if it were an official term from the rule book.

I predicted that a "noodle net" would be an ineffective defense, because noodles tend to "hang high" then quickly drop. I have only found evidence of one "noodle net" ever deployed. It was against us at Bayou, in match two of semis. While I do not have enough video to explicitly confirm this, it appears that the HPs of both 3946 (my team) and 3937 (Breakaway) put at least one noodle over that net. Here's Robin's (3946's human player) noodle.

[GeeTwo]

When you pay three bills on a Sunday afternoon, and recognize that two FRC teams have numbers in this range, and that you have cheered for, chatted with, and applauded them both as they received blue banners.

• 3337: Panthrobotics in Baton Rouge, Bayou Chairman's winner this year
• 3339: BumbleB, part of the winning alliance on Carson division at CMP this year

Then, later that same afternoon, you notice that the four missing numbers in the bottom central box of the newspaper's sudoku is missing your team's number. (It was yesterday's Conceptis puzzle, in today's Times Picayune.)

Originally Posted by Poseidon1671

When you know the FRC Rhapsody lyrics better than the original lyrics.

I'm not there, but then A Night at the Opera is one of the dozen CDs attached to the visor in my car.

[Poseidon5817]

When you know the FRC Rhapsody lyrics better than the original lyrics.

[MishraArtificer]

Originally Posted by Poseidon1671

When you know the FRC Rhapsody lyrics better than the original lyrics.

...please explain this. I'm not familiar with it.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by MishraArtificer

...please explain this. I'm not familiar with it.

That video that played at many regionals, AND the group that did a combined video and live performance at championship... guess it didn't make it to your neck of the woods. Link via the CD thread discussing it.

Short version: An FRC team did a parody of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" and it went viral (within FRC, at least).

[Edxu]

When your phone passcode alternates between 1114, 2056, 1241 and 1477...

[SoulianPride]

You find yourself writing parody lyrics to EVERY SONG that pops on the radio in order to fit a FIRST theme.

[natejo99]

You have nightmares about your robot breaking on a nightly basis

[devg29]

Originally Posted by logank013

...When you try to drive the shopping cart in the grocery store like it has a swerve drive. (Yes, I got lots of odd looks)

when you explain swerve drive to non-robotics people by saying "it's like a shopping cart, but a little different"

[BBray_T1296]

Originally Posted by logank013

...When you try to drive the shopping cart in the grocery store like it has a swerve drive. (Yes, I got lots of odd looks)

That's why I LOVE going to IKEA! The carts have rotating castors on all 4 wheels

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by devg29

when you explain swerve drive to non-robotics people by saying "it's like a shopping cart, but a little different"

When you read the above and double-facepalm, and wish you had two more hands...

Originally Posted by BBray_T1296

That's why I LOVE going to IKEA! The carts have rotating castors on all 4 wheels

I guess that's one way of making you keep both hands on the wheel cart handle.